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In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
This paper discusses how Christian morality was influenced by Aristotle and Stoic philosophy in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in...
allowing them to be less complex than they often are in real life. In the Old Testament in the bible, they tend to be rather simpl...
In a research paper containing eight pages the supreme or creation African mythological gods are contrasted and compared with Zeus...
In eight pages this paper examines the pre Christian Mystery Cults that emphasized God's 'mysteriousness' and discusses its myths ...
In ten pages this research essay compares Christian and Jewish views of God. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
In three pages this essay considers how the passion Marie de France and her lover share is compared with her contention God suppor...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
Greek goddess Aphrodite, who is the "goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture" (Lindemans "Aphrodite"). As with Aphrodite, Venus...
reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...
the narratives in the books to come (Friedman 295). In Genesis, everything builds on everything else. Therefore, in order to under...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...
There have been missionaries since the early days of the Christian church. This paper examines the way in which early missionaries...
This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...
theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...
A 6 page research paper that discusses the political positions of various authors from the ancient world. The writer asserts that ...
poets intended to discard the pompous idiom of eighteenth century verse, and to employ the real language of modern men and women -...
Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
understand the draw to the marginalized groups such as the converted Jews, but to see the evidence which supported the recruit of ...
theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...
A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...
as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...
did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...
This paper analyzes Christian's short story collection, Rain on a Tin Roof. The author focuses on details of Christian's coming o...
a variety of stories in a variety of ways. First, Dionysus is a contradictory god. He does things that might surprise people bec...
contribution to the image in Greek mythology is the story of Chiron, who was born of a union between Zeus and Ixion, the son of Ar...
far more meaning that representing daily life. According to one particular author, "The Cycladic civilization of the Aegean sea...
to Egypt would also pay homage to some Egyptian Gods such as Isis and Horus. In Britain and Gaul there is evidence of the Romans m...
In eight pages classical Greek civilization is examined in a series of brief independent essays that include astrology and the Gre...